90 Miles From Tyranny

Saturday, October 8, 2016

Girls With Guns

Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of Donald Trump, predicted Saturday that there would be "more vile shit" revealed about the Clintons ahead of Election Day than emerges about the Republican nominee.

"Here is my prediction: More vile shit about the criminal Clintons will be learned before the elections than will be learned about Trump," he said in an email to POLITICO. "And none of it will come from Trump's campaign."

Stone has previously indicated that he's been in communication with WikiLeaks head Julian Assange, who on Friday posted thousands of alleged emails from the personal account of top Clinton aide John Podesta. Those emails posted minutes after news began to break about the leaked tape of Trump's lewd comments on women.

Stone had tweeted last Sunday, as The New York Times was reporting on a leak of Trump's 1995 tax information, that Hillary Clinton would be "done" by Wednesday. He added the hashtag #Wikileaks. But nothing materialized on Wednesday, when Assange held a press conference that was largely to celebrate his organization's anniversary.

The Podesta emails included excerpts from Hillary Clinton's paid private speeches that aides had flagged as potentialy troublesome, speeches she'd refused to release throughout the campaign despite demands from rival Bernie Sanders during the primary. Those speeches revealed she described herself as "far removed" from the challenges of the middle class and welcomed "open borders" trade with other countries in the Western emisphere.

But none, so far, seemed to have anywhere near the same potential to upend the race as Trump's newly released comments.

Leaked emails from Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta’s personal email account published by WikiLeaks reveal the Clinton campaign’s coordination with George Soros’s Open Society Foundations on the subject of police reform.

Soros, who has given almost $10 million to Clinton super PAC Priorities USA, is a major funder of Black Lives Matter. The Washington Times reported in August that Soros has given at least $33 million to the group through the Open Society Foundations (OSF), which he funds and controls.

Both OSF and Clinton have called to crack down on police officers’ “implicit bias.”

As reported by The Daily Caller last month, internal OSF documents say the mainstreaming of “implicit bias” is meant to serve as a foundation from which to overhaul the nation’s anti-discrimination laws and make it easier to file racial discrimination lawsuits by eliminating the need to prove intent.

A December 2015 email exchange between Podesta and OSF president Chris Stone was included in the batch of Podesta’s emails released by WikiLeaks on Friday.

“Hi, John. Your policy team was asking me for ideas on...